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X sues India over ‘unrestrained censorship’


Elon Musk-owned social media platform X is suing the Indian government, accusing the country's IT ministry of unlawfully expanding its powers to remove

Elon Musk-owned social media platform X is suing the Indian government, accusing the country’s IT ministry of unlawfully expanding its powers to remove online content, Reuters reported Thursday. X has long chaffed at government orders to remove or block content in the country, such as during the farmers’ protests last year. X claims the website creates “an impermissible parallel mechanism” that causes “unrestrained censorship of information in India”, according to the news agency’s report of its filing.

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